Room with a (tweet) view…

“I can’t comment on how others use social media. I can only speak on my own use of Twitter, which is: I had a cat, the cat died, and now the stuff I used to say to the cat all day, I tweet.” – Colson Whitehead

Or, as he also says in the same Publishers Weekly piece, social media is “a little company during the workday.”

That’s so true. Just think about the life of your average, typical writer — who sits in a room, on the couch, on the bed — pretty much in isolation — working all day long at the...